Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
A wisdomism
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
Mary Jean Irion
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
Steve Jobs
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
Napoleon
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
Joseph Addison
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
Lisa Earle McLeod
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
The journey is the reward.”
Greg Norman
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
Diane Lane
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
Frederic Nietzsche
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
Sonia Croquette
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
President Calvin Coolidge
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Andrew Carnegie
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
William Blake
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
Dr. Ben Carson
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
Aristotle
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
Kathleen Jo Ryan
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
Betty Smith
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
John D. Rockefeller
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
Ted Leonsis
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb